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A staggering blend

of body percussion and modern music

Let’s wake up and let’s be aroused! Deeply dipped in the working life, three individuals are seeking to combine dreams and reality, to change their sight upon life, until they manage to transcend daily routines. They stir, they meet, they collide and face their universe with music.Body percussion, vibes, voices, keyboards and guitars in support of frenzy, poetry, humour and love; this show is a choreographed and dramatized musical encounter of music and movement, laughter and wonder, elsewhere and here. It is a dynamic and explosive performance inviting us on an inner journey, giving us the chance to share and to go in search of others.This show brings together three young and complete artists, which are at once multi-instrumentalists, composers and overactive pedagogues.It is creative, modern and highly entertaining.

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A staggering blend of body percussion and modern music

Let’s wake up and let’s be aroused! Deeply dipped in the working life, three individuals are seeking to combine dreams and reality, to change their sight upon life, until they manage to transcend daily routines. They stir, they meet, they collide and face their universe with music.Body percussion, vibes, voices, keyboards and guitars in support of frenzy, poetry, humour and love; this show is a choreographed and dramatized musical encounter of music and movement, laughter and wonder, elsewhere and here. It is a dynamic and explosive performance inviting us on an inner journey, giving us the chance to share and to go in search of others.This show brings together three young and complete artists, which are at once multi-instrumentalists, composers and overactive pedagogues.It is creative, modern and highly entertaining.

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2026-2027



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The team

Soleo, a team of 17 people!

Musicians: Sophie Boucher, Sébastien Le Guénanff, Julien Vasnier.
Musicians-Substitutes: Mathieu Cervera, François Daniel, Lucie Delmas, Rémi Leclerc, Jean Adam, Mélanie Martel.
Techniciens son :  Benoit Chabert d’Hières, Clément Durand.
Light technicians: Benjamin Croizy, Helena Castelli, Frédéric Sulpis, Berenice Giraud.
Production and distribution officers: contact@lesentetes.com

SOPHIE BOUCHER

SOPHIE BOUCHER

Body percussion, bass, guitar, vocals

1m56, musician/kitesurfer. Constantly attracted by rhythm, this musician plays guitar and bass at the music academy, percussion and many dance steps in her bedroom. She’s continuously experimenting all art forms blending music, dance and theater. She creates and plays in salsa bands, in jazz-afro bands, in gestural theater pieces and in traditional French music and dance groups. Involved in the associative sector, engineer and cultural action manager, she’s also a body percussion teacher for professional and amateur artists.

SEBASTIEN LE GUENANFF

SEBASTIEN LE GUENANFF

Body percussion, piano, vibraphone, vocals

1m80, musician, cyclist / CNSMD Lyon certificate, percussion teaching CA and percussion teacher at the Grenoble Music Academy. Captivated very early by brass band drums, piano and handiwork, he discovered quite fast the richness of percussion instruments, keyboards and tools. His musical qualities are nourished by classic percussion practices, jazz improvisation and choral singing. He is also an overactive pedagogue very implied in institutional, school and associative teaching.

JULIEN VASNIER

JULIEN VASNIER

Body percussion, melodica, kalimba, vocals

1m90, musician/stuntman. A drummer since he was nine years old, he quickly fell in love with jazz and the typical grooves of the world’s traditional music. In contact with great claquettistes, he discovers bodily percussion. Quickly, he spends all his time on this language that seems to stick to his skin, including deer jumps and antics. Today he has also created a pedagogical spectacle, “The Voyage of Monsieur Hugo”, and co-wrote and performed “Soleo” and “Zou”.

INTERVIEW

With Sophie Boucher, Sébastien Le Guénanff et Julien Vasnier

How did you create the show?
SOLEO is the result of the meeting of three musicians longing to share and learn from one another. Each one of us brought his own musical universe, ideas, instruments, experiences and his will to blend music and movement around body percussion. Our first desire was to build an energetic show, fun and poetic, skilfully blending instrumental music and body percussion, but above all, share and give the opportunity to live an artistic and human experience with different audiences. As we moved on with our work, our « concert » transformed itself into a « performance », specifying our artistic purpose: what balance can we find between our daily routines (work shifts, schedules…) and our dreams? This is why, in our show, we tell the story of three characters that refuse to live an individual and planned life, and they clearly decide to build something together, to have a different outlook on the world. You will see repetitive percussive gestures, alienating, devoid of any humanity (with reference to Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times) alternating with poetic and joyful music

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What ideas do you want to transmit with this show?
The show’s main idea is to bring people to dream, to feel and to express their emotions, to be in a positive energy, and finally to bring people to realize their dreams, to show that our happiness, as much as our unhappiness, greatly relies on the way we choose to set upon life.

During a school session, what do the pupils have to know to safely approach the show? 
We wish that all pupils let themselves be swept away by the music and the images, in order to make up their own stories, that they feel a whole journey of emotions while they live the show. It might be useful to them to know the film or at least extracts of Modern Times by Charlie Chaplin to allow them to understand part of the purpose developed in the show.

What are the requested qualities to be considered as a good body percussionist? 
To be aware of the possibilities of your own body movements, dare to move and dance and have pleasure doing it. Develop the sense of rhythm and pulsation by feeling weight on ground and to remain at ease and loose whatever happens, from body to mind. The important thing is to be curious about all music rhythms and to feel them in your body.

All three of you are artists AND teachers. Are these jobs so different from one another?
They are indeed two different jobs but at the same time complementary and definitely enriching each other. In both jobs:

  • – there is creation, research and experimentation (sounds, phrases, pedagogical methods), we make errors, we adapt,
  • – there is transmission: know-how or theory, and emotions on stage.

The show allows us to go as far as possible in our activity, and teaching helps us to put words on our ideas, to have the benefit of hindsight. Both jobs are sources of intense pleasure; they are two ways of transmission that complete themselves perfectly. Teaching also reminds us that the artistic practice is a fundamental social vector and we can think about our artistic job as a «living-together» commitment and sharing process. We love to share with the audiences, in workshops for example, and search for the artist in each participant.

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PLAYLIST

  1. BREZBERE 4:52
  2. KALIMBA 2:18
  3. MEDLEY 2:29